Herr Drumpf. Ameerkkka. Coming to a theater near you. The greatest show on Earth!
Actually, the last show on Earth.
...as we know it.

In my 80 years, I have never seen the fear that has eruped in this country. Haters have been empowered by this man and not a day goes by that we don't hear of one of their escapades. On the migration issue, I blame the Republicans who refused to do anything to resolve the problems, they used this as political propaganda to divide the people of this country. In our paper today is an article on the Dreamers who are not re-enlisting for school for fear of broadcasting the addresses and information on their illegal parents and they are living in fear of deportation. These children represent an investment that this country has made in providing education of 1-12 grades. Because of the executive order from President Obama, they were given relief to go on with their educations, be able to work and contribute and become an asset to help make this country great. Now they are all living in fear. We should all do the things needed to protect our families as we progress through this period of a President who is establishing an all white cabinet of old men who will do anything that he wants. God help our country. I for one do not expect anything meaningful to happen for the people, but Trump and family will become VERY rich!

We are all in shock at the outcome of the presidential election, however when I awoke from my shock this morning, I realized this election was a corporate coup-de 'etat. The hate and racism is a distraction from the larger demise of our democracy. The presidency was taken through several mechanisms of fraud including Russian meddling, widespread voter purges and closing of 986 polling stations and media distortions. After 4 years of this party in power and with both houses, I believe election systems and voting rules, district redraws and media control will ensure more voters purged and disenfranchised so that never again will we have a democratic election. Trump and cabinet believes in fascism and they are well on their way to install it. Now is the time to fight, if we wait, it will require all-out bloody, decade-long revolution.

I saw a speech in which Trump promised all sorts of good things for the country. He especially said that he "promised" to be the father of ALL Americans. But this is turning out to be a lie. Are We, the People, being saddled with yet another (blatant) liar??? I'm getting really sick of this and we need to find a way to vet out these pathological liars.

I just heard online that Trump is going to deport all Muslims from America and replace them with Christians from other countries. He plans to locate these new immigrants in California, Oregon, and Washington State. His reasoning is so that it will destroy these states as Blue States, and thereby (once again) rig things in the Republican favor.

When will this country stand up and reject all of this corruption. Have we become so thoroughly onboard or desensitized to corruption that this is the new norm? If I could think of another place on Earth that had peace and prosperity, I'd gladly move there. (Actually, I mentioned online moving out of America, and was quickly informed by the Obama administration that if I left this country, I would permanently forfeit any and all of my (earned) Social Security benefits. Nothing like being threatened by your government to put a note of reality on things.)

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That political liars so often succeed: This is in large part explained by social-science scholarship I’ve studied over many decades, - much of which focuses on people’s non-rationality {which wicked politicians exploit}.

FOLKS FALL for POLs’ FIBS {a limerick}

Scholars have long since treated

how people’s minds are defeated

by pols who are ruthless

in pronouncements truthless, -

- such as those which Trump has tweeted.

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Hey flyguy and TomDorr, I thought you might enjoy this link regarding Trump's first week of transitioning as recounted by Elizabeth Warren

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/videos/video/sen-elizabeth-warren-lay...

Still think we should give him a chance?

Trump has admitted that he's a billionaire who has participated in government to the highest bidder. Thus he ran for president representing the party that is totally on board with this Fascist form of governance. This makes Trump an establishment republican.

If this isn't obvious to anybody with an average ability to connect a couple dots, I'm sorry for you. He's not bringing jobs back and he's not cutting your taxes. Trump is an establishment trickle down republican....more of the same old crap that has destroyed the working class for over three decades. He's going to line his own pockets behind the scenes while we're all busy being pissed off at his "cabinet of deplorables". This is the same tactic Fox News employs....distract the public with a bunch of crap so the billionaires can rip us off.

Putin has ripped off Russia for untold billions and shipped the money out of the country, I'm sure Trump has an identical agenda. Trump is distracting us by appointing controversial nut jobs with the hopes we'll take our eye off his self serving schemes for enrichment.

Dick Cheney pulled it off, only a few hundred thousand had to die for his self enrichment. Why do I have this awful feeling a few million may die in a Crooked Donny scheme?

This is the time for reflection by the progressives and most importantly, the DNC and Progressive Caucaus's. We LOST and the messages are clear. Refocus on the middle class working people. Get a good solid left-center economic plan to pursue. Forget about the past! For example, Jeff Sessions. He is no bigot by anymeans. This is good man who is a fighter for Constitutional Based legal action. He was an agressive prosecutor for civil rights. Next, DJT's selection are right leaning for sure. AND, he is NOT yet POTUS! Obama's 8 years did nothing for the African-American or anyone but those who suck off of our tax money.

545 human beings make all the decisions for 300 million citizens. The problems are the Federal Gov's $$$ based focus. Give the Donald the benefit of the doubt and lets all work to see what happens in the first year. I suspect it will not be as bad as we thought. Having a lose cannon at top of the Federal Food Chain may verywell be exactly the wake up call we need. He can only screw up a few times with relatively few areas that he can truly effect at first.

I look forward to his tenure with a slight degree of cauious optimizim. Heck, it can't worse than it is. If he can stop TPP, repair ACA, re-negociate the horrible trade agreements like we have now, maybe we can find the common ground. Infrastructure is key, boarder is key, the stupid shit that goes on with foreign policy and the $$$ spent on wars that can be put to better use domestically are all good progressive goals. We are divided for sure but the reality is we are ALL Americans! Too many women and men have given their lives for our way of living. Look at our future.....have you had any deep discussions with the kids that come out or our schools!!! Most are disfunctional illiturets and that is the future for my grand kids. Frightening to me. We can stand to make real intelligent changes and stop waisting time on past hyperbole by politicians who in my book are lower than scum! That said - Thom has it right....get involved in activities that will produce Change We Can Make!!

As all the above is intentional by Team Oligarch to distract, may I add here what seems a solution to acclerating warming in the Arctic, it'll require hiring all those Arctic People and field workers off the tar-sands to do this job:

After researching a while I came up with something worth doing !! thermally, globally worth it ... so, the first step of a solution to forestall the inevitable is damming Bering Straits to 1/100 its volume flow to create a year-round sea-ice refuge.

To do this using modified Dutch levee & dam methods for deeper water learning and refining the machines & technique by raising and restoring villages being lost, we are gaining 95,000-Terawatt-hours/year from sea-ice loss versus the 1980-2010 area average, 5-times what the USA uses a year, 2-1/2 times more heat that all the steam plants emit as waste-heat a year.

We need to specifically save the sea-ice, it's a foreseen tipping point, the math above showing it can double and this year the ice stalled freeze-up to far below the 2012 minimum some 800,000-km² less for the day of the year, i.e. rotten ice and warm ocean.

When ready to then build a weir dam & shipping locks at St. Lawrence Island, then with reduced flow to build ice-polders protecting sections to allow the bottom to refreeze, that allowing the chance to remain all year in some areas.

Then to build atolls around the methane flares to refreeze them, this may be fairly fast as the bubbles create an up-flow pulling in colder water at the sides all winter.

Using the ice-polders and larger areas calmed by levee sections and shoals to then corral and sustain ice much longer if not year-round in half the Bering Sea, all of the Chukchi Sea and extend into the Beaufort on the Alaska side, to levee & shoal the entire Arctic Basin the goal.

It's time to get serious and try to stop the early melt-out by the ice each spring to-sea from the shoreline, it's all heat-transfer, we must stall and pond the runoff from permafrost melting inland until 2070 then it slows down, all the glaciers in Alaska and globally are gone by then for being late-season water supplies.

This idea is from knowing why and what to do, think of Arctic Amplification stalled by having a cold-forcing going on in the eastern Arctic Basin, it's never been modelled, talking to Cray soon.

There is this geographically small gap to throttle that heat & current flow and the Dutch have closed 20-miles, plans are on the table to dam the Mediterranean for only $275bn and it's 1,200ft/365m deep and this only 165ft/50m.

The reduction in volume into the Arctic Basin reduces the volume of warmer Atlantic water drawn almost 1-sverdrup of 3 coming in, the North Atlantic Overturning Current is about 15-sverdrups total.

This counters the Gulf Stream disruption of the AOC by 30%, not trivial, and prevents 30-Terawatt-hours a year of heat coming in as fresher water staying on top, melting sea-ice from below, these facts are part of why it can have a large effect globally.

All it takes is recognition of this needing to be done, emission reductions are too slow to matter now to the accelerating feedbacks including ocean acidification.

I want to ship the brine from California's new desalination plants to Alaskan waters to dispense there to counter acidification, a fairly new shellfish farm can't grow 4-5 months of the year ... get it?

.. not a quitter so all I can do is light the fire and hope somebody sees it ?

A President like the new one will want some legislative accomplishments. But here we have an obstructionist right-wing in control of Congress. Dems working as a minority with Trump wont accomplish anything more than Dems trying to do so with Obama. The direction in which Trump goes on climate change and other key issues will determine how much room there is to work with Dems, but all early indications are that Trump has no intention to move policies in a direction that would garner broad support. If this continues we will witness one of the most divisive and difficult periods ever in American politics, and Trump's will certainly be a failed Presidency.

That's not to say that it isn't good media strategy for Dems to continue to press to indtroduce measures supported by Trump in his campaign. Its going to be critical to get some bills or other focued issues in front of people to show that Trump can't and won't be able to do what he said (since, at the core, he came in as a Republican with Republican money behind his campaign) or otherwise be a champion of the little guy. The ability to inform and focus people on the complete billionaire control of GOP is so important.

Let's face it (as discussed by yours truly in a separate post pending review today), its the billionaires, especially Hedge Fund money, who will control GOP's congressional agenda and caucus, and those interests are dead set against any popular reforms.

When Trump speaks out against the influence of the API, or Robert Mercer and Paul Singer, within the GOP, that will be the moment progressive Dems will have an opportunity to work with him. Its important to note the neffarious character of some of the big players in the Hedge Fund industry and its domination of the financial services industry and GOP politics. Someone like Mercer backed Cruz and is on the far right side of the GOP. And the big picture of the GOP is of a party fairly dominated by people like these, now that any pretention at placing the religious right's agenda first is pretty much over. Since this is alternative media, we are allowed to suspend the belief that Republicans are decision makers who control their own agenda and aren't just shills of some of the most potent economic forces on the planet.

The issue Thom raises is an important and difficult one for Dems. Do the Dems want to accomplish an infrastructure bill under circumstances where it means they lose some political ground on climate change, school shootings and gun regulation, discrimination, etc. etc. etc....

Why doesn't Obama and every powerful Dem go on record NOW saying that they want to work on x but only if Trump disavows KKK, etc etc etc. ? It just doesnt seem plausible that any true majority party should give up such important core values just to get an infrastructure bill done. Thanks to Bernie we have a good head start at articulating core values to the electorate, and this has to continue to be a focus.

It is one thing to stand up for what you believe - speak truth to power - to honestly challenge dynamics that offend your values, to represent the needs, and rights of your constituents (the real job of public service.)

That is pro-active.

It is quite another to oppose - across the board, blatant obstruction - "even the things that they otherwise would have agreed with" just to undermine their opponent's success and effectiveness, regardless of cost or consequence to others.

That is a low bar - no Happy Hour.

And yes, it comes from all quarters ... amazing! Human integrity is far from guaranteed!! Maybe that's why we go through these cycles of change - a testing of sorts ... with today's outcomes, we have more proof of institutional inequities, and more incentives to do something about them.

I want to see creative imagination and responsible innovation on all sides of all the aisles ... it seems more possible with conscientious people challenging the static quo, regardless of political affiliation ... it could happen ... only, less likely if we can't get past the petty back stabbing and personal insults we have seen so far ... not to mention the fundamental lack of respect for human worth in others whose views differ from our own ( as if wee people think with one mind.)

People survive such overwhelming challenges. We may be 'about to get run over before we know we're in the road.' Still, I see no need for a$$ki$$ing. You don't have to demean yourself, just because others do.

Of course, the incoming admin endorses extreme rendition so, choice in the free world could whittle down to a sliver:

Live or die ... truth or lie ...?

Truly, this is a defining moment.

Once again (as always) what we project will influence our experience as the universe gives back what we give to it, and so much more ...

I ask that appetites fueling heartless contention, hatred, deceit, murder, rape - in short, a degradation nation - will subside, as truth, love, and respect for life win the day.

I ask for humility to know nobody knows it all, and sensitivity to perceive what others feel, to respond in ways that open minds and hearts ... so we can heal.

It might help to recognize that life is a blessing (however mixed) - not a property to be possessed and controlled, bought or sold ... a gift to be embraced, and appreciated, with awareness, and gratitude - as it comes and goes - one breath at a time ... let's not throw it away.

..., or blow it away ....

DumpTrump will be nothing more tomorrow than he was yesterday. It is impossible to make a silk purse of a sows ear. Just mules in horse harnesses. An empty shell. Zip. Nada. Even having been given this gift to be able to make a real and meaningful positive difference in this world he will remain the robber baron that he is. And as long as he can keep the veins of our treasuries open for the 1% he has as his personal PR spin doctor the COMPLICIT COMMERCIAL MEDIA CIRCUS.

And that COMMERCIAL MEDIA REPUBLICAN / TRUMP PUBLIC RELATIONS CIRCUS SMOKE SCREEN is the most dangerous threat our nation has ever faced. Every drama designed to justify and distract us from actions of the congress. We need to stay focused because it's here. I just cannot bear to watch one minute of Network News for myself but I have been told by friends, and in a panic voice, that stories are all over the news that "Oh My! Thousands and thousands of illegal Mexicans are just walking across the border in advance of his inauguration!! And nobody is even stopping them!!" My BS detector is telling me it's anotherCOMMERCIAL MEDIA RUSE! I say Trumps and his cronie, the criminal Mexican president, have orchestrated the show at Trump's request! And the wall to wall coverage by his COMMERCIAL MEDIA PR MACHINE is designed to enrage the right and inflame public sentiment to support anti immigrant policies and encourage the call to "lock them up"! So the for-profit prison system looks like the first-pick pocket tactic. At a cost of $100.00 per day, per prisoner, of tax payer money they'll have them sleeping 3 or 4 to a cot and building more and more prisons . We could feed house and send them to school for that kind of money but instead we will incarcerate them in, already deemed by the government to be unfit, for-profit prison facilities, that he and his cronies own stock in, so they can make huge personal profits. That is why despite our federal government's announcement that they would no longer use these private prissons, their stock value jumped on November 9. Brilliant. And he hasn't even been sworn in yet.